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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips,comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: pascal writeln format error?
Keywords: pascal,writeln
Message-ID: <1990Jan10.103056.17268@uwasa.fi>
Date: 10 Jan 90 10:30:56 GMT
References: <15473@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
Distribution: comp.sys.mips,comp.lang.pascal
Organization: University of Vaasa
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In article <15473@boulder.Colorado.EDU> putz@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Eric Putz) writes:
>
>I am having a problem getting writeln to output a number with a decimal value
>of 0, not in the 'e' format, and am not sure if this is a compiler bug, or
>a feature of pascal. I have tried the following lines with the following 
>results:
>	writeln(1.0:1:1) gives me 1.0
>	writeln(1.0:1:0) gives me 1.0e+00.
>What I was hoping for was 1 when writeln was given a decimal value of 0. 
>All other decimal values I have tried (> 0) have worked correctly. The 
>compiler I am using is MIPS Pascal 2.0 (from RISC/os4.00 & cmplrs2.0) on 
>an M2000. Any thoughts? Thanks in advance.

This is off the cuff, and concerns Turbo Pascal (so no guarantees),
but try
  writeln(1.0:0:0) 

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